Over 2000 metric tonnes of garbage removed from 100 wards since Deepavali day

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Removal of garbage successful  advancement  connected  Mahal Vadambokki Street adjacent   Vilakkuthoon successful  Madurai connected  Tuesday.

Removal of garbage successful advancement connected Mahal Vadambokki Street adjacent Vilakkuthoon successful Madurai connected Tuesday. | Photo Credit: R. ASHOK

Lifting garbage connected a rainy time was not lone challenging, but risky successful galore ways, said civic authorities portion supervising the cleaning enactment connected Tuesday.

A ample fig of conservancy workers were divided into micro groups of 100 to 150 and deployed successful commercialized areas and semi-residential areas and residential colonies.

Over 2000 metric tonnes of garbage removed from 100 wards since Deepavali day.

For the archetypal time, the Corporation Commissioner Chitra Vijayan suggested the enactment unit to commencement engaging successful lifting the garbage from the Deepavali day, which utilized to beryllium a holiday. This helped successful a large mode arsenic implicit 40% of cracker wastes was lifted by evening connected Monday isolated from the regular waste.

A sanitary inspector astatine Vilakuthoon said that isolated from the cracker waste, ample fig of leftovers by roadworthy broadside hawkers and thoroughfare vendors had accumulated on Masi Streets and Netaji Road. By engaging trucks and tractors, the discarded was removed.

Assistant City Health Officer Abishek said that it was challenging, but the enactment from the enactment unit made america bash the occupation swiftly successful galore wards. The continuous rainfall connected Tuesday posed a precise large hazard and caused hold successful lifting the garbage arsenic they had soaked successful the rainfall. “With large difficulty, it was cleaned up,” helium added.

The DYFI cadre, for their part, joined the workers successful Vilakuthoon, Netaji Road and different stretches connected Tuesday. This proved a small spot comforting for the workers, Seeni, a worker, said and added that successful immoderate pockets adjacent Arapalayam and Munichalai, aplenty of leftover nutrient dumped successful the bins could not beryllium cleared owed to a atrocious smell.

This time, the Corporation had identified the large slaughter outlets successful the metropolis and sent its vehicles to the spots and lifted the nutrient discarded straight earlier they were dumped connected the streets. It whitethorn beryllium noted, during past Deepavali, it created fissures arsenic immoderate merchants had dumped the discarded adjacent the Vaigai riverbed.

Published - October 21, 2025 10:43 p.m. IST

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